28 Facts About Stuart Andrew

Stuart James Andrew was born on 25 November 1971 and is a British Conservative Party politician who has been the Member of Parliament for Daventry in Northamptonshire since 2024.

Stuart Andrew was previously MP for Pudsey in West Yorkshire from 2010 until the constituency was abolished before the July 2024 election.

Stuart Andrew was a councillor on Wrexham County Borough Council from 1995 to 1999.

Stuart Andrew was a councillor on Leeds City Council from 2003 to 2010.

Stuart Andrew was elected for Pudsey at the 2010 general election.

Stuart Andrew was a Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State under Theresa May Stuart Andrew served in four positions under Boris Johnson, as Vice-Chamberlain of the Household from 2019 to 2020; Government Deputy Chief Whip in the House of Commons from 2020 to 2022; Minister of State for Housing from February to July 2022, and Minister of State for Prisons and Probation from July to September 2022.

Stuart Andrew was appointed Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Sport, Tourism, Heritage and Civil Society in September 2022 by Liz Truss.

Stuart Andrew was retained in the position and was appointed Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Equalities by Rishi Sunak in October 2022.

Stuart Andrew was born on 25 November 1971 in Anglesey.

Stuart Andrew was state educated at Ysgol David Hughes in Menai Bridge.

Stuart Andrew stood unsuccessfully as a parliamentary candidate for Wrexham in the 1997 general election.

Stuart Andrew was re-elected as a Labour councillor in 1999, but resigned from the council later in the year.

Stuart Andrew served on the Welsh Affairs Select Committee between November 2010 and November 2012.

On 22 February 2012 Stuart Andrew was headbutted and punched in a House of Commons bar during a disturbance created by Scottish Labour MP Eric Joyce, tweeting the next day that "I'm OK".

In September 2012, Stuart Andrew brought forward a bill that would create a new power for governors to "destroy or otherwise dispose of any unauthorised property found within a prison or an escort vehicle".

In January 2016, Stuart Andrew was one of 72 MPs who voted down an amendment in Parliament on rental homes being "fit for human habitation" who were themselves landlords who derived an income from a property.

In May 2016, it emerged that Stuart Andrew was one of a number of Conservative MPs being investigated by police in the 2015 general election party spending investigation, for allegedly spending more than the legal limit on constituency election campaign expenses.

Stuart Andrew was appointed vice-chairman of the Conservative Party, with particular responsibility for cities, on 23 September 2016.

Stuart Andrew became Assistant Whip in June 2017 and Parliamentary Under-Secretary in January 2018, before moving to be Parliamentary Under-Secretary.

In July 2019, Stuart Andrew wrote to Bradford Council to oppose plans to introduce a new link road in south east Bradford, impacting the Pudsey constituency.

In October 2019, on both 14 October and 19 December, Stuart Andrew was ceremonially taken hostage by the Queen at Buckingham Palace for the duration of her speeches to Parliament.

On 10 September 2020, Stuart Andrew stood in for Jacob Rees-Mogg as Acting Leader of the House of Commons in Business Questions as Rees-Mogg was self-isolating awaiting the results of a COVID-19 test on his son.

Stuart Andrew did not always cast these proxy votes the same way, instead following the instructions of individual MPs.

Stuart Andrew was sworn of the Privy Council of the United Kingdom in 2021.

On 6 July 2022, Stuart Andrew resigned from the role of Minister of State for Housing due to the recent scandals involving the former Conservative Party leader and Prime Minister Boris Johnson, most recently the Chris Pincher scandal.

On 8 September 2022, Stuart Andrew was appointed as Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Sport, Tourism, Heritage and Civil Society.

On 27 October 2022, Stuart Andrew was appointed to a second ministerial position, as Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Equalities.

Stuart Andrew is openly gay and a patron of LGBT+ Conservatives.